Limelight
What is Webinar Software?
Webinar software hosts live online seminars for large audiences, combining broadcasting, registration, screen sharing, slides, chat, polls, and recording.
Webinar software is a platform built to broadcast a presentation to many viewers at once. Compared with a regular video call, it adds tools for scale: registration pages, attendee management, one-to-many broadcasting where most participants watch rather than speak, moderated Q and A, polls, and built-in recording for later viewing.
Webinar software differs from general video conferencing, which assumes a smaller, interactive group, and from streaming platforms, which target public audiences without registration. Webinars sit in between, structured presentations to a registered, often business audience.
In marketing, training, and education, webinar software runs the event end to end. The presenter still shares slides or a screen, and that shared view is where audience attention lives. Limelight complements this on macOS by spotlighting the cursor, showing keystrokes, dimming to a region, and enabling live annotation on the shared screen so a large remote audience can follow along. Limelight does not host, register, or record the webinar.
Why Limelight
- ▸Broadcasts to large audiences with registration and attendee management
- ▸Adds polls, moderated Q and A, and built-in recording
- ▸One-to-many by default, unlike interactive conferencing
- ▸Hosting and recording are platform features, not overlay features
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FAQ
- How is a webinar different from a regular video meeting?
- Webinars are structured for large, mostly passive audiences with registration and broadcast controls, while meetings assume a smaller, fully interactive group.
- Does Limelight host webinars?
- No. Limelight is a macOS overlay that makes a shared screen clearer with cursor spotlight, keystroke display, and live drawing. Hosting and recording belong to the webinar platform.